What is truth?

[Malelekakis]

@How to be wise if you ask hard enough only truth may remain 

[iamme]

Truth is God: eternal, constant, never changing. 

How does one let go of the false? See it as false and stop feeding it energy. 

[Erlend K]

On 15.7.2018 at 3:36 AM, Leo Gura said:

Be careful with all of these Western philosophical notions of truth. They are not Truth with capital T.

If you want to see Truth with a capital T, just silently look around the room you're in right now. You're looking at Truth. But you're not fully conscious of just what it is yet because ego it taking this room as "my experience", which is a subtle conceptualization still.

The Truth is exactly what's right in front of you. Train your awareness right on it and hold it there for a long time without moving. Just silently observe the Truth. Connect with the mystery of existence.

Your body is made of Truth, the floor is made of Truth, the coffee table is made of Truth, etc. The question is, what the hell is it? It ain't molecules or atoms. It ain't even experience. What is it?

 

The question asked was "What is truth" (with a lower case "t")?

The essence of "Truth", with a Capital "T" is an entirely different question.

I agree that we should be careful with Western philosophical notions of truth. Not cynical or dismissive, but careful. Just like we should be careful with Eastern, mystical and 'new-age' notions of Truth.

What's right in front of us is mere appearances - the proverbial shadows on the cave wall.

The wise approach would be (as your last paragraph seems to suggest you agree on) - adopting a Socratic stance, knowing that we don't know what "Truth" is. From there we can open-mindedly cull glimpses of Truth from the multitude of available sources, mindfully resisting the temptation of labeling whatever seems true at our current stage of insight "The Truth". Not throwing out the proverbial babies of either western or eastern philosophy, but accepting that we might never fully grasp the essence of "Truth" - Yet keep looking.

Edited July 16, 2018 by Erlend K